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Cop Out – Film Review

Posted on 26. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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by Todd Gilchrist After spending almost two decades giving Kevin Smith the benefit of the doubt, it’s hard to refute the seemingly obvious truth that he just isn’t a good director. Not only is he not much of a visual stylist, he doesn’t have any flair for storytelling, and almost none of his films have [...]

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The Enquirer Wins a Pulitzer? Why Not?

Posted on 24. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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By Jason Dean Certain things in this world just feel wrong when you put them together. Olives and raisins. Burkas and Coppertone. Rachel Maddow-Coulter. Now comes the most salacious pairing of modern journalism: National Enquirer and Pulitzer Prize? (Try saying it out loud without your voice curling up into a question at the end.) This [...]

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The Ghost Writer – Film Review

Posted on 19. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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by Todd Gilchrist “Forget about it, Jake, it’s the CIA.” Perhaps needless to say, this isn’t actually a line from The Ghost Writer, but Roman Polanski’s latest film shares much in common with his 1974 masterpiece Chinatown, not the least of which being a resignation to the larger, impenetrable machinations of a system that was [...]

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Shutter Island – Film Review

Posted on 19. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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by Todd Gilchrist Martin Scorsese is the filmmaker who maybe more than any in the medium’s history brought cinephilia to the mainstream, and it’s this enormous legacy of inspiration, influence, and cinematic subtext that he has embedded in his body of work which makes Shutter Island so hard to talk about. Superficially about a U.S. [...]

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Fat People on Planes Entertain, Yet Again

Posted on 16. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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By Mark Cartier Kevin Smith, noted film director, was recently kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to Burbank… for being too fat. The resulting Twitter war has sucked me in just at a time when I had conspired to give up on Twitter as a conquered property of teenage jagoffs. Proving itself useful [...]

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Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief – Film Review

Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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If one wanted proof of the entertainment world’s complete and total lack of original ideas, they need look no further than Percy Jackson & The Olympians. A copy of the Harry Potter series so shameless that it even features Chris Columbus, the same director who shepherded J.K. Rowling’s character to the screen, there’s not one [...]

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Valentine’s Day – Film Review

Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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by Todd Gilchrist The new romantic comedy Valentine’s Day has everything – that is, except for characters and a plot. Overstuffed with star wattage and storytelling clichés but not one single idea of substance, Gary Marshall’s film only needed to be this February’s He’s Just Not That Into You, and it couldn’t even be that. [...]

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The Wolfman – Film Review

Posted on 10. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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by Todd Gilchrist In the parlance of 19th Century England, the time and place in which the film is set, “The Wolfman” is a little bit like a mouthful of wooden teeth: Technically it gets the job done, but to even the untrained eye, it’s not a convincing substitute for something real. In an effort [...]

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Valentine’s Day Premiere (Photos)

Posted on 09. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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By Josh Bixel The Valentine’s Day premiere at the Chinese Mann Theater on Monday had no shortage of star power, given the number of luminaries who appear in the film. This love-fest stars Julia Roberts, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Jamie Foxx, Topher Grace, Eric Dane, Ashton Kutcher, Queen Latifah, Emma Roberts, Bradley Cooper, [...]

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Superbowl 2010 Pregame and Halftime Shows (Photos)

Posted on 07. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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by Tom Burlington The Who rocked the 2010 Superbowl Halftime. For those watching old enough to remember how great the Who are live, the band put on an entertaining show with a medley of “Pinball Wizard”, “Baba O’Riley,” “Won’t Get Fooled Again,”and “Who Are You”. Following the opening acts of Queen Latifah performing ‘America the [...]